For those that are wondering, the comic hasn’t made a permanent shift into black and white. I’ve just been a little too crazy busy to get the coloring done. After the holidays I should be less crazy busy and be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Mr. William Schwenck Gilbert, the lyrics-writing half of Gilbert and Sullivan, was indeed a minor official before making it big as a playwright. For four years he was an assistant clerk in the Education Department of the Privy Council. Summing […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ah. Here it is! I don’t remember what the reasoning was behind making Gilbert’s body into an egg decorated with the British flag. PROBABLY had something to do with eggs being easier to draw than human bodies….
Having performed in several Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, it is interesting to see how The Count renders the various G&S conventions he has seen into a comic. –Geoff
To be fair, Frederick was Pretty Darn Good with his extending of religious freedom. Lots of other monarchs played the Huguenot Game, but Frederick was the guy who even tolerated the Jesuits when EVERY other monarch had declared it Fuck […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s a classic problem for all historical webcomic illustrators: the fact that Louis XIV and Marshal Villars were, for all intents in purposes, identical. Namely, fat guys with huge hair in overly elaborate clothes. We’ll talk about the Battle of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, last week we talked about what Malplaquet meant for Louis XIV and the course of the War of the Spanish Succession. Now let’s talk about it and the Hohenzollerns, Frederick’s royal line. Frederick’s grandfather, Frederick I, was a gilded […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, 40 years ago about this time Apollo 8 was swinging around the moon. I was recently going through some old issues of Popular Science that I have from the late 50s and 60s, just soaking up the excitement of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some of you might be wondering why the second clock didn’t disappear once Frederick convinced himself not to steal it. That might well have been the case had Frederick not first taken the clock to the Voltaire Stasis Year, thereby […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sure, the Louis line was pretty bad when it came to its floosying about, but I think the overall award for Most Wenching By A Line of Monarchs Sharing the Same Name has to go to the Georges of England. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…